Haste

Definition: Haste

Haste

Noun

1. Overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste".

2. The act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner; "in his haste to leave he forgot his book".

3. A condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry; "in a hurry to lock the door".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "haste" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Haste

Activity

Nimbleness, agility; smartness, quickness; Adjective: velocity; alacrity, despatch, dispatch; expedition; haste; punctuality; (early).

Earliness

Punctuality;punctuality; promptitude; (activity); haste; (velocity); suddenness; (instantaneity).

Velocity

Noun: velocity, speed, celerity; swiftness; Adjective: rapidity, eagle speed; expedition; (activity); pernicity; acceleration; haste.

Crosswords: Haste

Esperanto (hastily, hurriedly, in a hurry), German (Eile, scurried), Norwegian (hurry), Portuguese (arbor, bar, bind, bine, extender, fish rod, halm, handle, haulm, plunger, rod, scape, spindle, sprue, stalk, stem, stock, stud, wattle).

Waste makes haste. More time is sweeter (Robocop 2; writing credit: Edward Neumeier; Michael Miner)

In my haste (Crash Into Me; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

But jumping queues and making haste (Mighty Quinn; performing artist: The Hollies)

Haste Qual Wohnste sozial (1971)

Make Haste to Live (1954)

Post Haste (1933)

Marry in Haste (1924)

Married in Haste (1910)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Go with haste into the mountains : a history of the Diocese of Helena (reference)

• Make Haste My Beloved (reference)

• Marriage in Haste [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

• Married in Haste (reference)

• Married in Haste (Intrigue , No 481) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Make Haste to Live (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Haste to the Wedding (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went

However, leaving that mystery to solve itself, or go unsolved for ever, he drove his task onward, with earnest haste and ecstasy

Gentlemen, no haste.

Stephen stumbled into the middle of the class, blinded by fear and haste.

Good lords, make all the speedy haste you may.

But I could see four or five men running in great haste up the stairs to the top of the island, who then disappeared

But to make haste to my own experiment

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Indonesia

The haste of enactment together with the slowness in issuing clarifying implementing regulations has caused great uncertainty. (references)

Taiwan

President Chen has yet to revise the previous administration's "no haste, be patient" policy regarding Taiwan mainland investment to prevent over-dependence on the P.R.C. As a result of this policy Taiwan has placed restrictions on largescale infrastructure investments on the mainland in 1997. Despite this, billions of dollars have been invested in the mainland by smaller firms. (references)

Human Rights

Guyana

The GHRA issued a press release in response to the announcement of the newly established HRC, calling the Commissions Act a "lost opportunity," and criticizing the haste with which the act was developed and implemented. (references)

Minorities

Croatia

Some observers, including ethnic Serb leaders, criticized the apparent haste and secrecy with which the constitutional law was passed. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Their haste

Man of haste

That makes haste

Expressions using "haste": act in haste ♦ be in haste ♦ do smth. in haste ♦ great haste makes waste ♦ haste makes waste ♦ in deadly haste ♦ in haste ♦ indecent haste ♦ make haste ♦ more haste less speed ♦ post haste ♦ To make haste ♦ too much haste ♦ with haste ♦ without undue haste. Additional references.

Beginning with "haste": haste-slowly.

Ending with "haste": Weinrich-haste.

Containing "haste": make-haste-slowly.

Afrikaans

haas (go fast, hare, hurry, rush). (various references)

Albanian

shpejtësi (career, celerity, despatch, dispatch, flow, legerity, lick, momentum, pace, promptitude, quickness, rapidity, rate, speed, swiftness, tearing hurry, velocity), nxitim i tepruar, nxitim (acceleration, bustle, hastiness, hurry, hustle, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitation, rapidity, rush), ngut (hasten, hurry, hustle, rush, urgency). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تهور (extravagance, foolhardiness, impetuosity, imprudence, impulsiveness, madness, precipitate, precipitation, rashness, recklessness, temerity, uncontrollability), ‏تسرع (hastiness, play fast and loose, precipitate, precipitation, rashness, rough and ready, run, scurry, slapdash), ‏تعجل (hurry, scamp), ‏سرعة (alacrity, blast, career, despatch, dispatch, expedition, gait, hastiness, hurry, lick, pace, pizzazz, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, smartness, speed, spurt, swiftness, tilt, velocity), ‏عجلة (expedition, hurry, promptitude, quickness, urgency, wheel), ‏عجالة (hastiness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

бързане (hurry, hurry-scurry, rush, scurry), бързина (agility, celerity, dispatch, expedition, fastness, hastiness, lick, precipitance, promptitude, quickness, rapidity, readiness, speed, swiftness), прибързаност (hastiness, impetuosity, imprudence, precipitance, precipitation, prematurity, rashness), припряност (hurry). (various references)

Chinese 

迮 (to press), 匆碌, 勷 . (various references)

Czech

spìch (bustle, hurry, hurry-scurry, rush, speed), pospíchat (hurry, post, press on, push on, rush), chvat (clutch, expedition, grip, hold, hurry). (various references)

Danish

hast (speed). (various references)

Dutch

haast (almost, nearly, soon), haastigheid. (various references)

Esperanto

hasto, rapidemo. (various references)

Farsi 

سرعت (Headway, Pace, Promptitude, Rapidity, Rate, Speed, Speedy, Tilt, Velocity), عجله کردن (Hurry), عجله (Expediency, Hurry, Hustle, Post, Snap, Speed), شتاب (Dispatch, Hurry, Hustle, Pelt, Speed, Tilt, Velocity). (various references)

Finnish

hoppu (hurry, scurry), hätäisyys (hastiness, hurry, impatience), kiire (hurry, rush). (various references)

French

hâte (hastiness). (various references)

German

hast (hurry, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitation, rashness, rush, scurries, speed), eile (expedition, hastiness, hurriedness, hurry, hustle, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitation, rush, speed). (various references)

Greek 

βιασύνη (hurry, impetuosity, precipitation, rush). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"ירות (celerity, lick, licking, pelt, promptitude, quickness, rapidity, rush, speed, swiftness, velocity), פזיזות (foolhardiness, hastiness, impetuosity, impulsiveness, precipitancy, rashness, temerity, waywardness), חיש�" (celerity, hurry, quickness, swiftness), חפזון (hastiness, headiness, hurry, precipitancy, precipitation, rush), �"ז�"רזות (hurry), ב�"ילות (alarm, hurry, panic). (various references)

Hungarian

sietség (despatch, diligence, dispatch, expedience, expediency, hurry, hustle, scurry, scuttle, tearing hurry, trepidancy, trepidation, trepidity). (various references)

Indonesian

tergesa-gesa (bustle, cursorily, hie, hurry, worry), kegopohan (hurry). (various references)

Irish

deifir. (various references)

Italian

fretta (hastiness, helter-skelter, hurry, rush), furia (anger, bluster, fureur, fury, hastiness, hurry, rabidity, rage, rampage, rush, temper, wax, wrath). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

プロ野球 (10^2, hair, hair band, hair care, hair cream, hair curler, hair dresser, hair dryer, hair liquid, hair manicure, hair oil, hair spray, hairbrush, hairdye, hairpiece, hairpin curve, hairstyle, header, heading, heather, hectare, hecto-, hectopascal, hedge, hedgehog, hedging, hegemony, intense smell, professional baseball, state of being furious or angry). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ヘイスト . (various references)

Korean 

성급. (various references)

Manx

siyr (bustle, hurry, hurrying), glistyr (agitation, enema, hurry, squall), driss (hurry, rush, scurry, spurt). (various references)

Norwegian

hastverk (hurry). (various references)

Pig Latin

astehay.(various references)

Portuguese

pressa (ado, bustle, hastiness, hurry, hustle, rustle, scurry, speed). (various references)

Romanian

repezealã (hurry), pripã (hastiness, hurry, quickness, rush), precipitare (hurry, hurrying, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitation), grabã (cursoriness, dispatch, expedition, forwardness, hastiness, hurry, pelt, press, quickness, rapture, readiness, rush, scamper, speed), alerga (career, chase, collide, course, elapse, flow, fly, go, go the pace, hasten, hurry, race, run, rush, scamper, scour, spank, urge, walk), agitaţie (ado, agitation, bustle, clutter, commotion, dusty, emotion, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, flurry, flutter, fret, go, inquietude, nervousness, perturbation, restlessness, riotousness, roughness, squirm, stir, trepidation, unrest, vexation, working). (various references)

Russian 

опрометчивость (impetuosity, imprudence, precipitance, rashness). (various references)

Scottish

deifir, deannal (conflict, hurry, onset), deann (force, rush, speed : deann-ruith), cabhag (hurry). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prenagljenost (hastiness, precipitance, rashness, temerity), žurba (bustle, bustling, hurry, hurry-scurry, rush, scramble, swiftness). (various references)

Spanish

prisa (hurry, press, rush, speed, urgency). (various references)

Swedish

hast (dispatch, hurry), brådska (bustle, hastiness, hastle, hurry, precipitance, precipitation, press, rush). (various references)

Thai

ความรีบเร่ง (hustle), ความหุนหันพลันแล่น (temperament). (various references)

Turkish

acele (bustle, discomposedly, dispatch, early, expedition, fast, flying, hastily, hasty, hotfoot, hurried, hurriedly, hurry, hurry up, in a hurry, in haste, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitate, press, pressing, quick, rapid, rush, speedy, swift, too previous, urgency, urgent, whirl). (various references)

Turkmen 

gyssagara (hurry). (various references)

Ukrainian

спішити, квапливість (hastiness, hurry, precipitation, random), квапитися (busk, hie, hurry up, powder, push on, skip, wing-ding), необачність (gaffe, hastiness, misdoing, negligence, oversight, precipitance, precipitancy), поспішність (hastiness, prematureness, prematurity, speeding). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự vội vã (hastiness), sự vội v� ng (bustle, hastiness, hurry, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation). (various references)

Welsh

prysurdeb (busyness, hurry), ffrwst (bustle, hurry), brys (hurry). (various references)

celeritate, celeritatem, festinatio, festinatione, festinationem. (various references)

hreading. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "haste": hasted, hasteful, hasten, hastened, hastener, hasteners, hastening, hastens, hastes. (additional references)

Words ending with "haste": chaste, posthaste, unchaste. (additional references)

Words containing "haste": chastely, chasten, chastened, chastener, chasteners, chasteness, chastenesses, chastening, chastens, chaster, chastest, posthastes, unchastely, unchasteness, unchastenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Haste" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahst, Aste, haast, haate, haese, Haesje, haets, hagte, haist, haite, Halske, halte, hamsted, haote, harte, Haschke, Hasek, hasey, hasstle, hasta, haster, hastes, hastey, hastle, hasto, hastow, hati, hatta, hattu, Hawtah, haysted, hcset, hisie, hitsel, hlast, hoste, hosteg, Huasta, Hulsta, husat, huset, kaste, Naste, shaste. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: haets, hates, heats.

-1 letter: ates, east, eath, eats, etas, eths, haes, haet, hast, hate, hats, heat, hest, hets, sate, seat, seta, shea, teas, thae.

-2 letters: ash, ate, eat, eta, eth, hae, has, hat, hes, het, sae, sat, sea, set, sha, she, tae, tas, tea, the.

-3 letters: ae, ah, as, at, eh, es, et, ha, he, sh, ta.

+1 letter: bathes, chaste, cheats, deaths, earths, halest, haslet, hasted, hasten, hastes, haters, hearts, heaths, lathes, sachet, saithe, scathe, sheath, shelta, snathe, spathe, swathe, taches, thanes, thetas, wheats.

+2 letters: achiest, aethers, aitches, altheas, anthems, anthers, ashiest, astheny, atheism, atheist, batches, bathers, berthas, breaths, cachets, catches, chalets, chasten, chaster, chetahs, daleths, dearths, earshot, escheat, ethanes, exhaust, fathers, gashest, gathers, haddest, haffets, hafters, halites, halters, hamates, hamlets, hamster, handset, hantles, haptens, hardest, hardset, harslet, harvest, haslets, hastate, hastens, hastier, hatches, hatless, hatreds, hatters, haziest, headset, healths, hearths, heaters, heliast, hepcats, heptads, hetmans, hostage, humates, latches, lathers, lethals, loathes, matches, patches, rachets, rashest, ratches, reheats, sachets, satchel, scathed, scathes, shafted, shantey, shatter, sheathe, sheaths, sheitan, sheltas, slather, snathes, spathed, spathes, staithe, stashed, stashes, stealth, stengah, sthenia, swathed, swather, swathes, takahes, teaches, teashop, tephras, thalers, thawers, thenars, thraves, threads, threaps, threats, trashed, trashes, watches, wealths, wreaths.